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Excerpt from Philostratus, the Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Vol. 2 of 2: The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius Indus and the Nile, resemble one another, if we chap. Consider their natures. For they both spread their I moisture over the land in the summer season, when the earth most wants it, and unlike all other rivers they produce the crocodile and the river-horse; and the religious rites celebrated over thein corres pond with one another, for many of the religious invocations of the Indians are repeated in the case of the Nile. We have a proof of the similarity of the two countries in the Spices which are found in them, also in the fact that the lion and the elephant are captured and confined in both the one and the other. They are also the haunts of animals not found elsewhere, and of black men - a feature not found in other continents - and we meet in them with races of pigmies and of people who bark in various ways instead of talking, and other wonde1s of the kind. And the griffins of the Indians and the ants of the Ethiopians, though they are dis similar in form, yet, from what we hear, play similar parts for m each count1y they are, according to the tales of poets, the guardians of gold, and devoted to the gold reefs of the two countries. But we will not pursue this subject; for we must resume the course of our history and follow in the sage's footsteps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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